You have a problem with either your BIOS setting disabling the on-board sound, or, you have a failure of your audio chip. You cannot do anything in Windows if the audio chip is not being reported by the motherboard as being present.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi guys, I'v got a bit of a problem, I,v been running 7 for a few months now and never had any driver problems but the other day I turned on my comp to find a red circle with a cross in by my little speaker in the lower right corner. So naturally I looked in device manager but there is no tab that says (sound, video and game controllers.) So I right clicked the speaker, Troubleshooted sound problems it installed a driver, But upon completion it says "realtek high definition audio had a driver problem." So as you can imagine, I aint happy to say the least. Back into device manager I go, right click my name at top and right clicked (add legacy hardware.) run it in advanced, chose realtek and licked install... to no avail, I got the sound, video and game controllers tab back in device manager but had the yellow symbol next to it and wouldn't update. Back to the speaker icon, right clicked him then clicked playback devices to get a message, "no audio devices are installed." So I'v tried everything I know and would be much appreciative for any info on the subject. My board is the foxconn 15235 quad with Q6600 processor, I have no sound card in there and not too sure if I can. Thanks in advance. Acker

You have a problem with either your BIOS setting disabling the on-board sound, or, you have a failure of your audio chip. You cannot do anything in Windows if the audio chip is not being reported by the motherboard as being present.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.